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Following the fall of the Assad regime in mid-December 2024, graves attributed to the rule of the Assad family, including both Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad, were uncovered by NGOs such as Human Rights Watch along with several academic researchers associated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the University of Amsterdam.
615–672 foreign soldiers have been killed during the conflict, mostly by military involvement from their countries and in the border areas with Syria. 16 Iraqi servicemen killed. On 2 March 2013, one Iraqi soldier was killed during clashes between Syrian rebels and government forces at a Syrian-Iraqi border crossing. [158]
The United States, European Union, and the majority of the Arab League called for Assad to resign. The civil war has killed around 580,000 people, of which a minimum of 306,000 deaths are non-combatant; according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, pro-Assad forces caused more than 90% of those civilian deaths. [3]
Many more have been injured, and tens of thousands of protesters have been imprisoned. According to the Assad regime, between March 2011 and May 2012, 9,815–10,146 people, including 3,430 members of the security forces, 2,805–3,140 insurgents and up to 3,600 civilians, have been killed in fighting with what they characterize as "armed ...
Many Syrian Army personnel fled to Iraq during the fall of the Assad regime. Following Assad's departure, the Syrian Arab Army Command gave an announcement to its soldiers and officers that they were no longer in service as of 8 December 2024, claiming the Assad government had ceased to exist.
[97] 76 of those killed died on the first day alone, [98] while 93–100 people were killed on 22 December. [99] By 18 December 879 people were wounded. [ 100 ] During the first four days the attacks were concentrated on Aleppo city, but on 19 December, the helicopter strikes were expanded to include surrounding villages. [ 101 ]
On 1 May, at least 13 people, including 8 Pro-Assad militiamen and 2 civilians, were killed in an ISIS ambush in the desert near Al-Salihiyah, Deir ez-Zor. [66] On 2 May, at least 9 Pro-Assad soldiers and militiamen were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian facilities in the al-Nayrab military airport in Aleppo. [67] [68]
Rebels claim to have killed 25 men who they accused of being a part of the Shabbiha. [13] [14] Siege of Hama: 31 July – 4 August 2012 Hama: 100–200 Syrian Army Syrian government forces assaulted the city of Hama to crack down on the opposition, leading to the deaths of up to 200 civilians. [15] Darayya massacre: 20–25 August 2012 Darayya ...